![]() ![]() This was the case at Davey’s Supper Club, Curly’s Dinner Club and The Chickadee, all Highland Park legends before the 1950s. A look through a pre-WWII phone book’s yellow pages and menus reveals that fried chicken was the most expensive entrée served, more expensive than the highest priced steaks. ![]() Tandoori chicken is one of two great chicken dishes of Mughal India.ĭes Moines’ chicken history reflected the international intrigue. Reuther agreed not to strike before the 1964 election, and LBJ promised to stop Volkswagen from bringing their pickup trucks into the U.S.) European and Asian car makers virtually dropped out of the light truck export business. (It was later revealed that Johnson was making good on an election year promise to UAW head Walter Reuther. The tariffs on brandy, potato starch and dextrin were repealed, but the chicken tax on foreign trucks still applies. If you ever wondered why American companies control the pickup truck business in the U.S., thank the chicken tax. President Lyndon Johnson inspired a 25 percent tax on imported brandy, dextrin, potato starch and pickup trucks. France’s legislature banned American chicken, and the European Common Market enacted a 25 percent tariff on U.S. German and French chicken farmers feared for their livelihoods. When Kentucky Fried Chicken launched its first national advertising campaign in the 1950s, its tagline was “It’s not just for Sundays anymore.”Ĭheap frozen American chicken became the rage in post war Europe, too. In less than a decade, chicken went from being a luxury food, usually only served on Sundays, to the cheapest protein available. Industrial agriculture streamlined the business, quickly shortening the time it took to raise a market-sized bird and reducing feeding expenses.īelieving white meat was more valuable, breeders, much like Hollywood producers of the day, created flightless creatures with huge breasts and skinny legs. Because of domestic shortages of beef, pork and lamb during World War II, America created incentives for chicken production. Then American chicken revolutionized the food world. It remained one of the most expensive proteins in the world into the 20th century. They are still considered luxuries and can be found in most local Indian restaurants.Ĭhicken would become a special dish in the most sophisticated cuisines of the world - Chinese, Turkish and, much later, French. On the Indian subcontinent, where they originated in the wild, they gave birth to two dishes known to this day as luxuries of the sultans, maharajahs and nizams - chicken biryani and tandoori chicken. Chick Cuisineįor most of their history, chickens were a food for the rich and royal. For comparison sake, there are less than one billion pigs and about nine billion humans. Today they are the most populous non-insect animal walking the earth with about 20 billion. They have also given the English language some new terms such as “ruling the roost,” “flying the coop” and “pecking order.” They earned the nickname “the animal who gives birth every day,” though hens rarely lay more than 300 eggs a year.Īnd yet these fowls originated far from the English-speaking world, probably in southeast Asia, though the type of chicken known in the western world today came from India. In the American South, and in British rock, chickens are known as yard birds. ![]() Young females are pullets, and older ones are hens, except in Australia and New Zealand where young birds of both sexes are chicks and older ones are chooks. Young males are known as cockerels, older males as roosters, except in Ireland and the U.K. Genetics is not beholden to the color wheel. A subspecies of the red junglefowl (its scientific name is gallus gallus), they owe their yellow skin tone to cross breeding with the grey junglefowl. This year, we turn our attention to one of the oldest, most revered and complicated foods in world history - the creature best known in America as the chicken. In a huge voter turnout, Prairie Meadows Café won by a neck. Last year, we decided it was time to let readers pick the ultimate burger in town. Twice we held pizza runoffs with Gusto yielding its title two years ago to Taste of New York. Then steakhouse fans went with Chicago Speakeasy, noodle lovers chose Noodle Zoo, and barbecue aficionados selected Woody’s. Sandwich lovers picked B&B Grocery Meat & Deli’s pork tenderloin as the ultimate sandwich in 2010. Which local restaurant will be named king of the oldest, most revered and complicated food in world history?Įach year CITYVIEW opens a contest to let our readers select the ultimate local version of a popular food. ![]()
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